-^16 Zoological Miscellamj. 
rounded, scarcely produced, with a central groove ; carpus short, with 
a large tubercle on its inner edge. North America. 
The cubitus of most of the species ends in a spine, so that the front 
of the fore-leg often appears to have a spine added to those on the 
carpus. 
Risso describes two Mediterranean species, P. Blicleli and P. longi- 
mana, which I have not seen. 
Description of three species of J^otopterus, found by Gen. Hardwicke, 
An the Indian Seas. 
Ornamented Motoptere. J^otopterus ornatus. Olive green, side of tail 
many (eight or nine) spotted, lateral line slightly curved over the pectoral 
fin, ventral fin, each three rayed; bcack low. D. 8, P. 9, V. 3, A. 130. 
Chitala Motoptere. JV'otopterus Chitala, n. s. Mystus Chitala, 
Ham. Gan. Hist. 236 Cheetel, Penn. Ind. Tracts, t. 11. Olive green, 
white banded, side of tail with four or five spots; upper jaw unarmed ; 
lateral line curved, ventral fin, each four rayed; back very convex just 
behind the head, D. 9, P. 14, V. 4, A. 120.? 130.? 
Kapirat Motoptere. JV'otopterus Kapirat. JWystus Kapirat, Ham. 
♦ Gymnotus Notopterus, Pallas, Spic. Zool. VI. t. 6, f. 2. Lateral line 
straight, ventral fins united, two rayed, D. 2, 7, P. 12, V. 1, A. 110 ? 
Cuvier has only described this species. 
Description of a new species of Snipe discovered by Charles Hard- 
wicke, Esq., in Van Dieman's Land. 
Van Dieman's Land Snipe. Scolopax Hardwickii. Tail feathers 
sixteen, the four outer on each side lanceolate, becoming gradually 
broader, white with (four or five) black cross bands, tips subacute, the 
inner web of the outermost feather scarcely wider than the outer one ; 
general colour like Scol. Gallinago; back rather darker and the white 
streaks rather broader and purer ; secondaries and scapulars more acute 
with some oblique, pale, longitudinal bands on their tips ; shaft of first 
quill white, the others black at the base, with a subterminal broad, pale 
bay band. Length 12, bill 2f, tarsus 1 J, and middle toe IJ inches. 
On the Genus Spiroglyphus of Daudin. 
This genus, which was established by Daudin in his Recuel de 
Memoires, and noticed by Bose, in his Vers, I., p. 86, although ex- 
ceedingly common, appears to have been overlooked by all succeeding 
naturalists. It is doubtless nearly allied to Vermetus, but the habit of 
boring, its tube in the surface of the shell, must require it to be separate. 
Gen. Spiroglyphus, Daud. Fam. Vermetidee, Animal. .? 
forming a groove for its shell in the surface of univalve shells. Tube 
shelly, sub-cylindrical, attenuated, irregularly spirally twisted, the upper 
surface alone exposed, thick, the lower surface which lines the groove 
formed in the shell, thin and smooth ; mouth round ; operculum horny, 
orbicular, subspiral. 
